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AnacatharticAnacathartic An`a*ca*thar"tic, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to cleanse
upward, i. e., by vomiting; ? + ?. See Cathartic.] (Med.)
Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n. An anacathartic
medicine; an expectorant or an emetic. Catharical
Cathartic Ca*thar"tic, Catharical Ca*thar"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?,
fr. ? to cleanse, fr. ? pure; akin to F. chaste.]
1. (Med.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by
stool; purgative.
2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as
cathartic acid.
Catharine wheelCatherine wheel Cath"er*ine wheel` [So called from St.
Catherine of Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in
allusion to her martyrdom.]
1. (Geoth.Arth.) Same as Rose window and Wheel window.
Called also Catherine-wheel window.
2. (Pyrotechny) A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in
form the window of the same name. [Written also Catharine
wheel.] CatharistCatharist Cath"a*rist, n. [LL. catharista, fr. Gr. ? clean,
pure.]
One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than
others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See
Albigenses. Catharsis
Catharsis Ca*thar"sis, n. (Psychotherapy)
The process of relieving an abnormal excitement by
re["e]stablishing the association of the emotion with the
memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and of
eliminating it by complete expression (called the
abreaction).
CatharsisCatharsis Ca*thar"sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Cathartic.]
(Med.)
A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the
mouth, bowels, etc. Cathartic
Cathartic Ca*thar"tic, Catharical Ca*thar"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?,
fr. ? to cleanse, fr. ? pure; akin to F. chaste.]
1. (Med.) Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by
stool; purgative.
2. Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as
cathartic acid.
CatharticCathartic Ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ?.] (Med.)
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a
purgative of moderate activity.
Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action
that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency
to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint
that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated,
and watery evacuations. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. --
Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n. cathartic acidcathartin ca*thar"tin, n. (Chem.)
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside
with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
acid, and cathartina. CatharticallyCathartic Ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ?.] (Med.)
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a
purgative of moderate activity.
Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action
that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency
to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint
that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated,
and watery evacuations. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. --
Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n. CatharticalnessCathartic Ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ?.] (Med.)
A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a
purgative of moderate activity.
Note: The cathartics are more energetic and certain in action
that the laxatives, which simply increase the tendency
to alvine evacuation; and less powerful and irritaint
that the drastic purges, which cause profuse, repeated,
and watery evacuations. -- Ca*thar"tic*al*ly, adv. --
Ca*thar"tic*al*ness, n. cathartincathartin ca*thar"tin, n. (Chem.)
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside
with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
acid, and cathartina. cathartinacathartin ca*thar"tin, n. (Chem.)
The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a glucoside
with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic
acid, and cathartina. Cato-catharticCato-cathartic Cat`o-ca*thar"tic, n. [Gr. ? down + ? serving
to purge. See Cathartic.] (Med.)
A remedy that purges by alvine discharges. Emeto-cathartic
Emeto-cathartic Em`e*to-ca*thar"tic, a. [Gr. ? vomiting + E.
cathartic.] (Med.)
Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
L catharticumPurging Pur"ging, a.
That purges; cleansing.
Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus
Linum (L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so called
from its use as a cathartic medicine. R catharticusRhamnus Rham"nus, n. [NL., from Gr. "ra`mnos a kind of prickly
shrub; cf. L. rhamnos.] (Bot.)
A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California
Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are
used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges. Rhamnus catharticusSap Sap, n. [AS. s[ae]p; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel.
safi; of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to
taste, to be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf.
Sapid, Sapient.]
1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending
and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to
nutrition.
Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of
which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the
elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant.
2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang]
Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus.
See Polyporus.
Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the
juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or
buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.
Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry.
Sap sucker (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small
American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus,
especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of
the Eastern United States. They are so named because they
puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name
is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.
Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.
Meaning of Cathar from wikipedia
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Catharism (/ˈkæθərɪzəm/ KATH-ər-iz-əm; from the
Ancient Gr****: καθαροί, romanized: katharoí, "the pure ones") was a
Christian quasi-dualist or pseudo-Gnostic...
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known as the
Cathar Crusade (1209–1229), was a
military and
ideological campaign initiated by Pope
Innocent III to
eliminate Catharism in Languedoc,...
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movement in
southern France and
northern Italy commonly referred to as the
Cathars. The
Perfecti were not
clerics in any way, but
merely members who had become...
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Cathars in Languedoc, and a
short guide to
Cathar heritage Cathar Country Cathars,
Cathar Beliefs and
Cathar Castles.
Cathar Castles Cathar Castles:...
- site of a
razed stronghold of the
Cathars. The
present fortress on the site,
though described as one of the "
Cathar castles," is
actually of a
later period...
- the
Cathar yellow cross was a
distinguishing mark worn by
repentant Cathars, who were
ordered to wear it by the
Roman Catholic Church.
Catharism was a...
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friends and ****ociates, to
Bishop Jacques Fournier who was
hunting for
Cathar heretics. He
plays a
prominent role in
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's
study Montaillou...
- Puylaurens; in Occitan: lo Castèl de Puèg-Laurenç) is one of the so-called
Cathar castles in the
commune of Lapradelle-Puilaurens in the Aude département...
- The
Cathars or
Albigenses have been
identified as Proto-Protestants by
people such as Jean
Duvernoy and John Foxe
among others. The
debate over the relationship...
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based on a now lost
Paulician treatise,
which also
became an
important Cathar scripture. The book was
translated into
Latin and
introduced to
Italy in...
